The Communist Manifesto

Luckily this reading was much easier to digest than our last reading of Tillich. The main idea that Marx's Manifesto adheres to this basic principle of the division of society into classes. While through out history man has always been divided into multiple classes (surfs, landowners, knights, lords etc.), The advancement of technologies, the division of labor, and the modernization of society brought on by the industrial revolution has produced the two class system. Between the Bourgeoisie, and the proletariat. The wealthy corporate employer and the working class. Also, due to the technological advancements in travel, communication etc. bourgeoisie society tends to self-perpetuation. Drawing all non-bourgeoisie "barbaric" cultures and societies in to the modern world creating an "inter-dependence of nations". Geographic specific resources and products are no longer limited to that region, but to the entire global society. Ideas and technology are no longer confined to certain nations or groups of people but are shared and known abroad. And interesting idea that Marx express was the fact that this idea can be applied throughout all facets of the modern world, on any scale.  Whether it be the family structure turned to a relationship focusing on money, or between the wealthy corporate employers, and the working class. Or even, in a much broader sense, the relationship between the industrialized, modernized nations and the yet to modernize nations. The East and the West.